GPU is a popular route as it can utilize the many parallel processors already included in a simulation user’s workstation. GPU is typically faster and more energy efficient than traditional CPU-based solvers.

Now Altair is investing in FluiDyna as a means to develop GPU-based CFD and simulation solvers. Optimized numerical methods for thermodynamics and fluid flow is a specialty of FluiDyna. In return, the companies will work together to develop GPU-optimized CFD analysis and a new virtual wind tunnel.

Thanks to the collaboration, Altair can offer its user base access to the following FluiDyna technologies as a reseller and through the Altair Partner Alliance:

ultraFluidX for internal/external/environmental aerodynamics based on Lattice Boltzmann

nanoFluidX for particle-based fluid dynamics based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics